Last week, Alliance members, partners, decision-makers, and community leaders got together to celebrate the 2025 Transformative Change Award recipients during the Alliance’s annual conference. Transformative Change Awards recognize individuals, teams and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to improving the health and wellbeing of people and communities in Ontario.
As Black History Month begins, we acknowledge and celebrate Black culture, knowledge, ways of being, healing, philosophies of life. This month is an open invitation to reflect and push back on oppression and erasure through marking, telling, sharing and learning about Black histories in Canada. It’s a month to take hard looks and acknowledge the history of slavery, systemic racism and racial discrimination, anti-Black racism and systemic colonial violence that continues today, including in Canada’s institutions of justice, education and health.
On December 4, the Government of Ontario passed the Safer Streets Stronger Communities Act, legislation that will permanently close vital supervised consumption services in communities across Ontario. At the same time, the government is removing critical harm reduction tools from its new model of care that help save lives, keep used needles off our streets, and allow people to access mental health and addictions services.
To mark this Truth and Reconciliation Day, we recognize truths that remain unheard, and actions that still need to be taken. We’re also celebrating the work currently underway to advance Indigenous health, while calling for increased access to culturally appropriate and safe care to address ongoing health inequities in Indigenous communities all across these lands.
As we celebrate Franco-Ontarian Day today, and all the contributions that Francophones make to the culture and communities across the province, we call for action from Ontario on a provincial Francophone Primary Care Strategy. The health outcomes of thousands of Francophones living in Ontario depend on urgent action to ensure health equity for French speakers in the province.
Today’s announcement by the Ontario government to close 10 Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS) sites, seven of which are embedded within Community Health Centres across Ontario, is hugely disappointing. This decision means vitally needed services and programs will disappear at a time when they’re needed most. It means that people will disappear in far greater numbers in months and years ahead, from fatal and avoidable poisonings. Moms, sons, daughters, dads, uncles, cousins, friends, colleagues will disappear from people’s lives forever with this sudden policy change.
This Pride Month, what’s first and foremost in our minds and hearts at the Alliance for Healthier Communities is the safety and security of each and every 2SLGBTQ+ person’s life, and the peace of every community across the planet.
This month, we mark and celebrate Indigenous Peoples History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21. This is a time to find deeper understandings and recognize the rich and diverse histories, cultures, knowledges and artistic landscapes of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island.
TORONTO, ON – Today, a coalition of Ontario’s community health care assoc